On the wall of an orphanage in Venice, a musicologist encountered a fresco featuring an aria written for an opera. She’s…
Pared-down packaging designs send a subtle yet powerful message of purity to shoppers – and they’re willing to fork…
A common criticism of women’s sports is that female players aren’t as entertaining or skilled as their male counterparts.…
A journalism professor discovers that some of the best lessons for future journalists can be taught on a pool table.
As Rupert Murdoch prepares to hand over the keys to his media empire, what will his legacy be?
Led by a Black businessman named Bob Douglas, the New York Rens, who played their first game on Nov. 3, 1923, became one…
Young Latinos in the US often navigate a contradictory landscape: Their parents see them as not Latino enough, while teachers…
The famous composer certainly didn’t have haunted houses in mind when he wrote the piece.
With identity the most lucrative commodity social media platforms trade in, their fetishization of authenticity remains…
This course beckons students to examine how alcoholic beverages are portrayed in books by American authors.
An obscure Mexican engraver named José Guadalupe Posada created the satirical skull in the early 1900s and sold it for…
Despite the perpetrators being tried and convicted, anti-Indigenous sentiment roiled the area for decades.
A celebrated poet and Nobel laureate, Louise Glück wrote about mortality, broken families and human frailty with devastating…
Art and science combine in this engineering course to let students turn their brainwaves into creative works.
Gendered words can be offensive in certain contexts – it’s all in what’s being signaled, according to a sociolinguist
African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
Comedians like Stephen Colbert might mock the entertainment mecca, but live theater is in too much of a crisis to dismiss…
Their desire to pursue marriage abroad not only reveals their longing for a better life but also reveals the pervasive gender,…
A scholar works to document local dialect of the Ojibwe language that was spoken by his grandmother.
The jokes, memes and skits came thick and fast – but behind the humor were serious points.